US History Flashcards
Pennsylvania flood of 1889
Johnstown flood
Party of the first two presidents
Federalist
He organized the U.S. Communist Party in 1919
John Reed
They participated in the “Kitchen Debate” - 1959
Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushschev
Father of the Great Awakening - fire and brimstone preacher
Jonathan Edwards
“The Great Compromiser;” he negotiated the Treaty of Ghent
Henry Clay
He funneled arms sales profits to Nicaraguan Contras
Oliver North
Rock concert at Bethyl - New York - 1969
Woodstock
Utah point where the transcontinental railroad met
Promontory Point
He launched first liquid fuel rocket - 1926
Robert Goddard
Tennessee senator who held organized crime hearings - 1951
Estes Kefauver
Transportation route - completed 1869
Transcontinental Railroad
Statue that was dedicated in 1886
Statue of Liberty
Base on the Moon - 1969
Tranquility Base
Land purchase - 1867 - a.k.a. Seward’s Folley
Alaska Territory (7.2M)
He was 14-year-old U.S. chess champion in 1957
Bobby Fischer
City of the Great Fire - 1871
Chicago
“Old Fuss and Feathers;” he captured Mexico City in 1847
Winfield Scott
Voting league established - 1928
League of Women Voters
US land purchase of 1803
Louisiana purchase (15M)
He established the first auto assembly line - 1913
Henry Ford
Man-made waterway that opened in 1825
Erie Canal
Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) party
Prohibition party
William Howard Taft’s policy toward Latin America
Dollar Diplomacy
First legislature in Virginia - 1619
House of Burgesses
U.S. capital from 1775-1783
Philadelphia
What was the first permanent settlement in North America - 1565?
St. Augustine
Computer used by U.S. Census Bureau - 1951
UNIVAC
First computer - 1950
ENIAC
“The Pathfinder” who was governor of the Arizona Territory
John C. Fremont
Time magazine editor involved with Alger Hiss
Whitaker Chambers
1896 William Jennings Bryan Speech
“Cross of Gold”
Law that opened up governemnt files - 1966
Freedom of Information Act
Gun bill named for White House press secretary
Brady Bill
Northwest land dispute motto - 1844
“54-40 or fight”
1820 compromise that temporarily ended slavery dispute
Missouri Compromise
First president under the Articles of Confederation
John Hanson
Man given the correct answers to quiz show questions
Charles Van Doren
First U.S. nuclear powered submarine - 1954
Nautilus
Teddy Roosevelt’s independent party
Progressive or Bull Moose Party
1894 rail workers strike
Pullman Strike
Great Robbery of 1950
Brinks robbery
Political party established by Henry Clay and Daniel Webster
Whigs
News program established to cover Iran hostage crisis
Nightline
He directed the Watergate Hotel burglary
E. Howard Hunt
Pilgrim known as “Little Shrimp”
Miles Standish
He broke the sound barrier in 1947
Chuck Yeager
He raided Harpers’ Ferry - 1859
John Brown
Generation that followed baby boomers
“Generation X”
Puritan husband of Maria Cotton
Increase Mather
Chicago to L.A. highway; “Main Street of America”
Route 66
Pocahontas’ father
Powhattan
“Paper note party”
Greenbacks
Analyst who leaded the Pentagon Papers
Daniel Ellsberg
Number of days of the Iran hostage crisis
444
Boston hall - “The Cradle of Liberty”
Faneuil Hall
John Adams’ cousin and Boston Tea Party organizer
Samuel Adams
Army Chief of Staff - 1948
Omar Bradley (last five star general)
He led unsuccessful slave rebellion - 1831
Nat Turner
Nightclub comedian arrested for obscenity - 1961
Lenny Bruce
Wyoming oil leasing scandal - 1923
Teapot Dome Scandal
This became an American territory in 1978
American Samoa
He set around-the-world flying record - 1938
Howard Hughes
Pirate who aided in Battle of New Orleans
Jean Lafitte
Ads banned - 1971
Cigarette ads
Site where gold was discovered in1848
Sutter’s Mill
Tennessee frontiersman killed at Alamo
Davy Crockett
“Separate - but equal” Supreme Court Decision - 1896
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Man who burned the Philadelphia in Tripoli harbor - 1804
Stephen Decatur
He broadcast “The War of the Worlds” in 1938
Orson Welles
Mail delivery service - 1860-61
Pony Express
Baseball scandal 1919-20
“Black Sox” Scandal
Five-time Socialist presidential candidate - starting 1900
Eugene Debs
Bus boycott city - 1955
Montgomery
Langtree - Texas judge - “The law west of the Pecos”
Judge Roy Bean
Louisiana Purchase explorers of northern territory
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
“Saloon Smasher “ 1910
Carry Nation
Man who captured New Orleans in 1815
Andrew Jackson
Designer of the American Flag
Francis Hopkins
Territory bought from Mexico in 1853
Gadsden Purchase
He purchased Manhattan from the Indians
Peter Minuit
Louisiana Purchase explorer of southern territory
Zebulon Pike (Pike’s peak)
American Railway Union founder - 1893
Eugene Debs
Tombstone - AZ - marshall - 1881
Wyatt Earp
Colonial seamstress
Betsy Ross
Colonial silversmith - engraver and gunpowder maker
Paul Revere
Agency created to prevent unfair business practices - 1914
Federal Trade Commission
Ship that exploded in Havana Harbor in 1898
Maine
Colonial capital of Virginia
Williamsburg
Settlers trapped in Sierra Madres - 1846-47
Donner Party
Georgia founder
James Oglethorpe
Major police strike - 1919
Boston police strike
Oil artery finished in 1977
Alaska pipeline
Peace agreement worked out by President Carter - 1979
Camp David Accords
Group of dams built as part of the New Deal
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
“The boss of Tammany Hall” in the 1860s
(William Marcy) “Boss” Tweed
Site of first postwar atomic bomb test in 1946
Bikini Atoll
Famous Tombstone - AZ - gunfight - 1881
Gunfight at the OK Corral
William Clark’s fronteirsman brother
George Rogers Clark
Pacific site of first H-bomb test -1951
Eniwetoc
First constitution - Nov. 15 - 1777
Articles of Confederation
Massachusetts colony - 1620
Plymouth
U.S. capital from 1789-1790
New York City
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s preacher brother
Henry Ward Beecher
Congressional act giving land to settlers - 1862
Homestead Act
“The Son of Morning Star” who died at Little Big Horn
George Armstrong Custer
Site of nuclear power accident - 1979
Three Mile Island
U.S. capital - 1783
Annapolis
Roadway across the Appalachians
Cumberland Road
States fighting in the Toledo war
Ohio and Michigan
Pre-Revolutionary War patriotic societies
Sons of Liberty
Disaster that killed 6000 in 1900
Galveston Hurricane
1854 act that nullified Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska act
Statesman convicted of lying to HUAC - 1948
Alger Hiss
Beaumont - Texas oil field
Spindle Top Field
First U.S. steamship commander - he negotiated a trading treaty with Japan in 1853
Commodore Matthew Perry
American pilot exchanged for Soviet spy Rudolph Abel
Francis Gary Powers
Continental Congress last president
Cyrus Griffin
Railroads that met at Promontory Point
Union Pacific and Central Pacific
LBJ’s social program
Great Society
San Antonio shrine of Texas War of Independence
Alamo
Law that banned export of alcohol - 1919
Volsted Act
Disease first recognized in Philadelphia - 1976
Legionaire’s Disease
Commission that presided over Iran-Contra hearings
Tower Commission
New England religious revival - 1730-1750
Great Awakening
Dutch governor of New Netherlands
Peter Stuyvesant
Chicago riots - 1886
Haymarket riots
Man Pocahontas saved
John Smith
Nuclear weapons treaty of 1963
Test Ban Treaty
Eli Whitney’s invention - 1791
Cotton gin
Company given 1.5 billion governemnt bailout in 1973
Chrysler
Supreme Court anti-segregation decision - 1954
Brown vs. Board of Education
Territory of states in the Ohio Valley and northward
Northwest Territory
White House lawyer caught up in Watergate
John Dean
Treaty that ended Mexican-American War
Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidgalgo
First U.S. underwater tunnel - 1927
Holland Tunnel
U.S. gold repository - established in 1935
Fort Knox
Diplomatic incident with France in 1797
XYZ affair
Supreme court decision - 1857 (a slave is not a citizen)
Dred Scott Decision
Virginia colony - 1607
Jamestown
Commission set up to investigate JFK assassination
Warren Commission
Feuding families of West Virginia and Kentucky - 1882
Hatfields and McCoys
Pocahontas’ burial place
Gravesend Church - England
Massachusetts farmers rebellion of 1786
Shays’ Rebellion
Banker whose conviction was overturned in 1993
Charles Keating
Member of the Weavers and political activist
Pete Seeger
Head of committee investigating Watergate
Sam Irvin
It rang for the last time in 1835
Liberty Bell
Street clash that killed five colonists in 1770
Boston Massacre
Harding pardoned this Socialist in 1921
Eugene Debs
Case declared unconstitutional by Supreme court in 1803
Marberry vs. Madison
Militia who had an 81 day standoff with the U.S. government - 1996
Montana Freemen
American Frigate launched in Boston - 1797
USS Constitution (Old Ironsides)
Liquor tax rebellion of 1794
Whiskey Rebellion
He founded the Bank of America - 1791
Alexander Hamilton
Sex researcher at Indiana University - 1948
Alfred Kinsey
Secretary of Interior convicted of taking bribes - 1929
Albert Fall
Trade agreement ratified in 1993
NAFTA
Fort bombed by British in 1814
Fort McHenry
J.F. Dulles’ brother and head of the CIA
Allen Dulles
Cities of Martin Luther King’s 1965 Freedom March
Selma to Montgomery
Winner of the Battle of Lake Erie in 1813
Oliver Hazard Perry
Oil baron who was first billionaire in the U.S.
J.D. Rockefeller
Man who created first state board of education
Horace Mann
Boston to New York road established in 1672
Boston Post Road
Act passed by British Parliament in 1763
Stamp Act
Law that banned closed union shops - 1948
Taft-Hartley Act
Doctor defended by F. Lee Bailey before the Supreme Court in 1962
Sam Shepard
War that commenced in 1898
Spanish-American War
Louisiana senator shot - 1935
Huey Long
Birthplace of the Conestoga wagon
Lacaster - PA
He instituted the national banking system
Salmon P. Chase
1912 health claims act
Pure Food and Drug Act
Man who claimed Virginia for England
Sir Walter Raleigh
Nixon’s attorney-general who resigned in1972
John Mitchell
He married Pocahontas
John Rolfe
Fort Orange location
Albany
1890 trust busting act
Sherman anti-trust act
Increase Mather’s son
Cotton Mather
Virginia namesake
Queen Elizabeth I (The Virgin Queen)
Dutch settlement in the Americas - 1624
New Netherlands
“Ignorant party”
Know Nothings
Boston night club fire in which 491 people were killed - 1942
Coconut Grove
New York City’s original name
New Amsterdam
Date of the stock market crash
October 29 - 1929 (“Black Tuesday”)
Nixon’s White House Chief of Staff
H.R. Haldeman
First pilgrim at Plymouth Rock and colonial barrel maker
John Alden
Document established in 1787
U.S. Constitution
Volcano that erupted in 1980
Mt. St. Helens
Railroad “robber baron” who organized U.S. Steel in 1901
J.P. Morgan
Air quality standards act of 1970
Clean Air Act
“Hollywood Ten” spokesman
Humhrey Bogart
First English colony in the Americas - 1588
Roanoke Island
Colonial legislature established in 1774
First continental Congress
FDR established this holiday in 1933
Bank Holiday
“Hollywood Ten” were investigated by this committee
HUAC
1815 treaty that officially ended the War of 1812
Treaty of Ghent (Belgium)
Failed Cuban invasion site - 1961
Bay of Pigs
High school integration city - 1957
Little Rock
Spring - 1968 - North Vietnam offensive
Tet Offensive
Providence and Rhode Island founder
Roger Williams
Laws enacted for segregation in the 1880s
Jim Crow laws
World Trade agreement ratified 1994
GATT
Bill intended to balance U.S. budget - 1985
Grahan-Rudman (Hollings)
Post WWII generation
“Baby Boomers”
Man who wrote Star Spangled Banner in 1814
Francis Scott Key
Short-lived U.S. state in western Tennessee
Franklin
U.S. declined to join this body in 1920
League of Nations
FDR’s 1933 program to end the depression
New Deal
Maryland founder
Cecil Calvert (second Lord Baltimore)
Disaster that killed 500 - 1906
San Francisco earthquake
He chased Pancho Villo into Mexico
John (Black Jack) Pershing
Body representing the colonies - 1774-1789
Continental Congress
He won the Battle of Manila Bay - 1898
Commodore George Dewey
First governor of Plymouth - died during first winter
John Carver
Commander at the Alamo - 1836
William Travis
Kentucky frontiersman - 1775
Daniel Boone
Tennessee trial on teaching evolution in schools - 1925
Scopes (monkey) trial
Detroit founder
Antoine Cadillac
Name of the Apollo 11 space capsule
Eagle
Philadelphia founder
William Penn
Knife inventor killed at the Alamo
Jim Bowie
Doctrine warning Europe not to interfere in Western Hemisphere - 1823
Monroe Doctrine
Continental Congress president - 1775-1777
John Hancock
Pony Express Terminals
St. Joseph - MO and Sacramento - CA
Admiral indicted over Iran-Contra affair
John Poindexter
Idaho site of FBI standoff - 1992
Ruby Ridge
British acts legislated because of the Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts
Central US banking authority created in 1913
Federal Reserve System
Statesman awarded Nobel Peace Prize - 1945
Cordell Hull
Environmental act of 1973
Engangered Species Act
Virginia rebellion - 1676
Bacon’s rebellion
Plymouth father - elected Plymouth governor 30 times
William Bradford
He debated with Abe Lincoln - 1858
Stephen Douglas
